A Multilevel Analysis of the representations of Technology in «Years and Years»

The analysis of science fiction narratives is valuable to explore possible futures. This article analyzes the representation technology in television series Years and (2019), a co-production by BBC HBO created Russell T Davies. audiovisual narrative depicts key problems present near future, enabling identification new socio-technological paradigms. We applied method Causal Layered Analysis (CLA), prospective analytical tool used both for study diverse current phenomena design futures, which includes levels litany, systemic causes, discourse/world vision, myth/metaphor. showed that offers vision world chaos, based on global capitalist technological project threatens fundamental rights, existence human species. In series, technologies are imbibed all systems Western societies, pushing common people into obsolescence. Three uphold myth dominion technology: transcendence beings, irrelevance humans before technology, ubiquitous panopticon digitized power. Through its bleak version future Y&Y puts focus aspects development make us reflect critically urgently about present.